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- Subject: Re: MAUS
- Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 13:43:21 +0200 (MDT)
- In-Reply-To: <199405311014.AA10342@world.std.com> from "Thomas Binder" at May 31, 94 12:14:51 pm
- From: Annius.Groenink@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink)
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- > After I've read some articles concercing the ^A-problem, I thought about some
- > suggestion (because I don't want to miss ^A ;)
- >
- > What about keeping ^A as a keyboard-shurtcut, but also do the following things
- > when it's pressed: "Ring the bell" (that means, ascII-code #7), wait a moment
- > (half a second?) and then clear the keyboard-buffer? Of course, this wouldn't
- > be necessary if "Select all" was selected from the menu-bar.
-
- Ringing the bell is certainly a good one. Waiting is OK. But emptying
- the keyboard buffer, no. I'd go for Warwick's suggestion that the user
- should be able to choose a 'verbose' mode in which all operations on a
- selection will cause an alert to pop up saying: 'Apply this operation to
- the WHOLE text? [ go ahead ] [ cancel ]'. Of course, this is no excuse
- for a poor UNDO function, though.
-
- Someone who can accidentally press Control A and then something harmful,
- wouldn't surprise me by then pressing Return for 'go ahead'... :-) without
- meaning to.
-
-
- Anyway, menu shortcuts SHOULD be configurable from an application, so
- the user can throw away control A altogether. I think we should also be
- thinking of developing guidelines for such a configurable menu assignment.
- A few ideas:
-
- - Atari's NEWDESK idea (binding keys without control/shift/alternate
- to menu items) is not good
-
- - The user should be warned when s/he introduces a key combination
- that is bound to another operation in the official (be it
- Atari, German or GEM-list) standard.
-
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